Incipient (u/Incipient)

Incipient commented on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Incipient · 6 hours ago

220 households, at say $2k/year of power bills is just under $500k/year revenue, plus whatever else from "disposing" of hypersaline water (if that's even a reverse stream?)

I hope this is just meant to be a tech demo, and doesn't have any advantages of scaling yet.

Incipient commented on US retail giants raise prices due to tariffs english.elpais.com/econom... · Posted by u/geox

Incipient · a day ago

If you have two competing providers, technically one could reduce margins to wear some of the tariff to out compete their competitor. Even if that DID happen, chances are wallmart etc would STILL put up prices, blame the tariffs, and just enjoy a higher profit margin.

Essentially even in an unrealistically optimistic position, the consumer will STILL get stuck with higher prices.

Incipient commented on Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux github.com/murat-cileli/c... · Posted by u/timeoperator

baq · 5 days ago

I’ve used ditto for this since before windows gained this capability. It also has an ignore list (e.g. keepass lives there) and a few other niceties which make it one of the first tools I install on a windows box (not very often anymore, granted).

Incipient · 3 days ago

Ditto is unparalleled. Ugly, but unparalleled. I've been using it for ages and every time I use a system without it I feel it's absence.

Incipient commented on Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser werd.io/why-im-all-in-on-... · Posted by u/benwerd

monkey26 · 8 days ago

I want profiles. For example, work and personal. Different bookmarks, different plugins. Even some different settings.

Incipient · 8 days ago

As a contractor, this is absolutely critical for me, and one reason I still use edge (along with edge syncing with client ad accounts).

Incipient commented on 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report fortune.com/2025/08/18/mi... · Posted by u/amirkabbara

infecto · 9 days ago

Has inaccuracies been an issue for any of the systems you have developed using LLMs? I hear your complaint quite a bit but it does not align with my experience. Definitely one shotting a chatbot around an esoteric problem introduces possible inaccuracies. If I get an LLM to interrogate a pdf or other document that error rate drops significantly and is mostly on the part of the structuring process and not the LLM.

Genuinely curious what others have experienced but specifically those that are using LLMs for business workflows. It is not to say any system is perfect but for purpose driven data pipelines LLMs can be pretty great.

Incipient · 8 days ago

I don't really track issues, as I don't need to. Just a recent example "please extract the tabular data from this visual" and the model had incorrect aligned records in one column, so the IDs were off by 1 in the data.

I'm sure in 95% of cases it gets it right, but it didn't this time, and I'm not sure how to actually work around that fact.

Incipient commented on The billionaire developer closing London's pubs the-londoner.co.uk/exclus... · Posted by u/rwmj

BobaFloutist · 8 days ago

>A business open in a particular place has to be the most profitable business possible there.

Why?

Incipient · 8 days ago

In a free market it WILL be, regardless of must or not.

You can debate if a business has cultural value beyond that (and I think they do) but that's not the reality of today.

Incipient commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy

bhaney · 10 days ago

I'm finding out about Forgejo (and their reasons for forking Gitea) right now for the first time. I already migrated my Gogs install to Gitea, and now I have to migrate Gitea to Forgejo? This shit is why people just stay on Github.

Incipient · 10 days ago

I use gitea and it "just works". I'm definitely not going anywhere.

Incipient commented on Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription autoexpress.co.uk/volkswa... · Posted by u/t0bia_s

JFingleton · 11 days ago

I never trusted VW after the emissions scandal : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5r9rgg6yno

Now I trust them even less, if that's even possible .

Incipient · 11 days ago

They're reducing manufacturing costs by producing the same car, and just selling it at different prices based on performance.

I think this is quite common with EVs especially, where the same motors are used in the base and performance models - they do normally add other stuff like bigger batteries etc too, but also cost a lot more than just 600 quid extra.

Incipient commented on Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma cfr.org/blog/time-end-rou... · Posted by u/luu

reactordev · 12 days ago

It’s so ironic. Just a couple weeks ago he was touting how he’s getting drug prices down. Except the tariffs kicked in, and now we’re going to be paying 50% more for those generics. If this were a chess move, we just lost our rooks.

Incipient · 12 days ago

To continue the analogy, if the US lost a rook, everyone would take notice "damn that was a big blow".

I think it's more like losing a pawn. Except now others have taken 3 unanswered pawns and everyone said "eh we've still got our queen" but now the queens are looking shaky and you're staring down a 3 pawn short endgame and no one believes you can turn it around.

Incipient commented on Perplexity low-balls Google with $34.5B offer for Chrome arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/RattlesnakeJake

PunchTornado · 15 days ago

>AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump's social media platform.

I don't understand why anyone would use them. If they get chrome, I'll switch to firefox. hate them too much.

Incipient · 14 days ago

They're doing it for money. The vast majority of people and companies out there do stuff for money.